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Darius Kazemi

I'm at the point where I'm seriously considering dusting off an old laptop to just use for meetings so I can have my development machine free

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ruffni

@darius that's how i did it
works great except for screen-sharing for stuff you're currently working on.
though you can set up VNC for that

yr

@darius just run it in a vm and limit cpu consumption

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@darius If you have the extra machines/tablets to do it, why not? I say go for it.

mcc

@darius Probably could even use a cheap tablet

Hey, here's a weird question

Is this an audio or a video Meet thing

Darius Kazemi

@mcc definitely video, also applies when my video is off but there is incoming video from others. I haven't tested out audio-only on both ends.

mcc

@darius So this is a really really strange thing to say, but have you tried shrinking the window containing the incoming video down real real small

I had a weird experience with Zoom running in Chrome where the bigger the window got the resource consumption increased geometrically, as if it were doing image postprocessing in CPU

Darius Kazemi

@mcc well I'm trying this next time!!!

mcc

@darius Anyway, my unpopular (or possibly popular but unheeded) opinion is that videoconferencing ruins remote workplaces entirely while offering no advantages to a meeting over voice chat. video chat is like a meeting but you can only stare straight forward as if bound and gagged. in a irl meeting at least you can use your laptop but video chat takes your laptop over

Darius Kazemi

@mcc wow, this does, in fact, seem to help a lot

mcc

@darius I don't know what causes this effect but every idea I can think of is kind of upsetting

andy pressman

@darius I've used my phone before for the same, handy if you don't need to be on video

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